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Introducing Wang Guowei’s Philosophy Introducing Wang Guowei’s Philosophy
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Applying Philosophical Thoughts on Music Education in Contemporary (post-1949) China Applying Philosophical Thoughts on Music Education in Contemporary (post-1949) China
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The Prospects for Chinese Music Education Philosophy The Prospects for Chinese Music Education Philosophy
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Bibliography Bibliography
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4 Progress and Development of the Philosophy of Music Education in China since the Twentieth Century
Get accessYaohua Wang, Professor of Musicology at Fujian Normal University, focuses his research on Chinese traditional music, the comparative study of Chinese and Ryukyu music, and music education. He has served on the Degrees Committee of China’s State Council and as President of the Asia-Pacific Ethnomusicology Society and the Music Council for Asia-Oceania. He is the author of several academic works, including Shamisen (三弦) Art, Ryukyu Palace Music and Chinese Music, Introduction to Chinese Traditional Music, and Chinese Traditional Music Structure. His works have been published in China, the United States, Japan, and South Korea.
Xiaoli Guo is Professor of Music and Music Education at Fujian Normal University, China. Her research interests are in music, music education, and music transmission. She is author of Research on Improvisation Education of Chinese Traditional Music and a coauthor of The Chinese People in Music and The International Communication and Promotion of Chinese Music Culture. She is the editor-in-charge of compiling the guqin portion in the Encyclopedia of Ancient China, Arts Division, Musical Art Section. She has had more than forty papers published in various journals and has won several national and provincial awards.
Hongmei Dou, Associate Professor at Linfen College, Shanxi Normal University, holds a Master’s in Education from Beijing Normal University. She has worked in English education for 36 years and is recognized as a provincial-level “Elite Asset” (骨干) teacher. Her research interests include English education and grammar and translation. Having presided over a provincial planning project, she published the book Strategies for English Grammar Teaching (Shanxi Education Press, 2021). She has had a dozen papers published in various journals. She is the translator of The Origins and Foundations of Music Education by Gordon Cox and Robin Stevens from English to Chinese (Peking University Press, 2014).
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Published:20 June 2024
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Abstract
This chapter begins with a synopsis of Confucian philosophy, highlighting the attachment of moral principles to formal music education. Since the early twentieth century, music education in modern China has continued to evolve, but with a strong Western influx of ideas from scholars such as John Dewey. A representative figure in early-twentieth-century China who absorbed Western ideas on a Chinese foundation, Wang Guowei, emphasized aesthetic education. While Marxism had a strong hold on education in China after 1949, another wave of influence from the West has appeared since the late 1980s via Bennett Reimer, David Elliott, and others. The latest official music-education curriculum standards show traces of traditional Confucianism and a renewed commitment to music aesthetics. The high-school music curriculum standards identify aesthetic perception, artistic expression, and cultural understanding as core qualities. Music educators in China are set for an ever-deepening quest as they move music education forward.
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